(APPLIED SCIENCE-NSW): DR STEPHEN JOSEPH: holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Metallurgical Engineering &

Doctorate in Architecture and Applied Anthropology. He is a Fellow of the Aust. Inst. of Energy, a chartered engineer

and has been a senior adviser to both commercial, govt. and non govt. organisations, in renewable energy, sustainable

agriculture and forestry. He has extensive experience world wide in all forms of renewable energy. He has developed

processes and technologies that convert biomass into energy & value added products. These include biodiesel, oil from

algae, biomass combustion, pyrolysis & gasification plant, biochar, plastic wood composite, microhydro, wind and solar

energy & additives for high strength concretes. He has also developed combustion devices to burn very dilute volatile

gases. He has also been involved in multi-country market research into areas related to biochar, waste recycling & re-

newable energy. He has written over 100 books and articles and lectured and trained other engineers & scientists

throughout the world. He was the founding vice chairman of the International Biochar Initiative & co-editor with Dr

Johannes Lehmann of the first major publication on biochar. He is now a visiting professor at UNSW, Nanjing Agricultur-

al University & Research fellow at the University of Newcastle & Wollongong & a director of a renewable energy and

engine company in the UK. He has been the managing director of a renewable energy company for 23 years & a director of other renewable energy

& biochar companies. SPONSORED BY :

(PRODUCTION-NSW) DR JOE HERBERTSON AM: Joe is a Director of Newcastle based, The Crucible Group Pty Ltd, which

has taken the Continuous Biomass Converter to the commercial stage, with an industrial scale development plant at Vales

Point, NSW. The CBC produces char, gas and water products in an efficient and novel reactor. The early commercial focus is

on the industrial use of the char and gas, as well as agricultural applications of the char and the water products. The CBC

provides a resource recovery pathway for wood wastes currently going to landfill. Joe previously ran the corporate re-

search laboratories of BHP and was GM of Research for BHP Steel. He is recognised for his contribution to sustainability

driven innovation.

(APPLIED SCIENCE-NSW) DR LUKAS VAN ZWEITEN: Lukas is a Senior Research Scientist with NSW Department of

Primary Industries, located at Wollongbar Agricultural Institute since 1995. Recent work on biochar is Internationally

Acclaimed and won the 2007 World Environment Day Award “Meeting the Greenhouse Challenge”. Work has been

shown on ABCs Catalyst program and on CNN. Biochar research also received a Commendation from the NSW Premier

Public Sector Awards. The research directly supports production of renewable energy and climate change mitigation

through C sequestration in soil, increased crop production and reduced emissions of soil GHG’s into the atmosphere.

Inquiries: info@anzbc.org.au

Registrations: http://www.byronbiochar.com.au/

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(APPLIED SCIENCE—U.S. INTERNATIONAL) Johannes Lehmann, professor of soil biogeochemistry and soil

fertility management at Cornell University, received his graduate degrees in Soil Science at the University of Bayreuth,

Germany. During the past 10 years, he has focused on nano-scale investigations of soil organic matter, the biogeochem-

istry of pyrogenic carbon in soil and sustainable land use in tropical agroecosystems. Dr. Lehmann is a member of the

steering group of the International Soil Carbon Network, has testified in the US congress, briefed the President’s council

of advisors, was part of Workgroup 2 on Monitoring and Assessment of Sustainable Land Management of UNCCD, and

serves on the Technical Management Advisory Committee of USAID’s legume program. Dr. Lehmann has authored

more than 200 journal publications, is editor-in-chief of the journal Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems and co-founder

of the International Biochar Initiative.

(APPLIED SCIENCE—SCIENCE) Dr Bernard Doube is a favourite for his passion and

extensive research and experience with dung beetles in South Africa and Australia. He

is an international expert on ticks, dung-breeding flies, earthworms and the biological

basis of soil health and offers workshops on soil health as well as soil macrofauna. Ber-

nard has co-edited the books Soil biota: management in sustainable farming sys-

tems and Biological indicators of soil health. His recent book Dung down under has sold

over 2000 copies. We look forward to welcoming both him and wife, Loene.

Inquiries: info@anzbc.org.au

Registrations: http://www.byronbiochar.com.au/

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(PRODUCTION– VICTORIA) Dr Adrian Morphett holds the position of Principal Environmental Engineer with Earth

Systems. In this role, Adrian conducts greenhouse gas and energy audits to comply with the relevant regulations and

standards, and provides specialist technical and engineering consulting on biomass and bioenergy technologies, and

industrial and commercial building energy efficiency projects. Adrian has had a varied career spanning several indus-

tries including petrochemical, government, academia, energy design and mechanical drafting. In 2009, Earth Systems

was approach to develop a specific pyrolysis technology to convert woody weeds in rural Victoria to biochar. Adrian

and colleagues invented a new technology class to achieve in-situ processing of large woody biomass to biochar and

other pyrolysis products. Adrian has continued to work in the bioenergy space developing various technical solutions

for challenging waste issues, and continues to consult as a registered carbon and greenhouse gas auditor to various

industries with support in an auditor role.

(FARMING—WESTERN AUSTRALIA) Doug Pow is a farmer from the lower South West of WA. He

was a pioneer of the Marron (freshwater crustacean) industry. That entailed a thorough analysis of the

local climate. As a result he planted the first avocados in the lower South West, his study had been in

botany, not aquaculture. The avocado industry in the lower South West of WA is now worth $100's of

millions per year. Four years ago he began experimenting with the application of biochar to beef cattle

husbandry with profound results way in excess of the original aims, both biologically and economically.

Last year the application of biochar has been applied to the culture of avocados on an industrial scale,

with the aim of creating a soil more closely approximating the physical properties of the volcanic

andisol soil that the avocado evolved in. His experiments with the application of biochar over the last

four years have been a continuation of 40 years of adaption to a changing climatic and economic envi-

ronment.

(APPLIED SCIENCE—QLD) Dr Jitka Kochanek is the Project Leader of the Plant Growth and Productivity Laboratory in The

School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland (St Lucia) and her team’s research is directly targeted

to address key industry needs – primarily to develop new technologies to boost productivity of food farming systems. Jitka was

Chief Investigator on a study that demonstrated that organic waste from cities, farms and other sources can be made via pyrol-

ysis into useful products for horticulture, agriculture, soil remediation and other uses - having real market opportunities while

being economically viable and environmentally beneficial (funded by Brisbane City Council and Horticulture Innovation Austral-

ia, 2010 to 2015). She is now working with a cross-disciplinary team to develop Australia’s first waste recycling demonstration

facility where it is envisioned that various experimentally validated technologies will be built on a pilot scale to transform or-

ganic wastes into tailor-made products for specific applications in plant and soil related industries (watch this space).

(PROJECT DEVELOPMENT-NSW) Renewed Carbon is a specialist project development company operating entirely in the Biomass Processing Sector. As the wholesale use of fossil fuels/resources is discouraged, in our progressively more carbon constrained econ-omy, the conversion of biomass into supplementary/replacement “drop in” products is progressing from an optional to an essential activity, and Renewed Carbon is in the vanguard of developing the actual “drop in” products, sponsoring the development of the necessary conversion technologies and then developing the actual projects (systems and infrastructure) to facilitate this vital indus-trial transformation.

Mark established Renewed Carbon in 2002 as a natural progression from the work of his specialist advisory and consultancy, Eco Waste Pty Ltd (www.ecowaste.com.au) which has been providing strategic advice on sustainable resource use issues for 25 years.

Regional Australia is the focus of Renewed Carbon’s current “BioHub” initiative; a project to establish some 200 biomass receiving and processing facilities throughout Australia, to be to the emerging Biomass Processing Sector what railhead silos are to the crop-ping sector or scrap yards are to the metals recycling industry: both first-points-of-receival and receivers-of-last-resort for any biomass arisings (see www.renewedcarbon.com.au).

Inquiries: info@anzbc.org.au

Registrations: http://www.byronbiochar.com.au/

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